BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed

Chapter 21. Working with Session Beans

by Subramanian H Kovilmadam

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Composition of a Session Bean

• Case Study: XYZ Airlines Online Reservation System

• Working with Stateless Session Beans

• Working with Stateful Session Beans

• Session Beans and WebLogic Server Clustering

• Transactions and Session Beans

• Best Practices

Chapter 20, “Enterprise JavaBeans and WebLogic Server,” introduced the various types of Enterprise Beans that you can use in your application. In this chapter, we look at Session Beans in detail. Session EJBs, or Session Beans, manage business processes or workflow that must be performed to achieve the required result. Workflow is the sequence of the steps that must be performed to get a job done. In an online booking application, ...